Member Since: Feb. 22, 2009

John Ivor


Books

Kill    by John Ivor
Price: Free! 5390 words. Published by Darling Newspaper Press  on June 26, 2012. Fiction.
(4.00 from 1 review)
Brilliant swordsman and heroic in stature, young Jeremy has only one weakness as he faces his greatest challenge. He is a coward.
Reverend Rapist    by John Ivor
Price: Free! 4470 words. Published by Darling Newspaper Press  on June 23, 2012. Fiction.
(4.00 from 1 review)
Sentenced to hang in 1828 Scotland, Maggie, 9, discovers there are things worse than death.
Invade America!    by John Ivor
Price: Free! 2070 words. Published by Darling Newspaper Press  on June 23, 2012. Nonfiction.
Fact, not fiction. A sea captain describes destroying American coastal forts and landing a British army to seize the White House. This concise history begins "Captain Striver" ($2.99), a book that reveals how one man beat impossible odds and family disgrace to create convict Australia's first Free Settlement, blueprint for the nation known today.
Run Maggie Run    by John Ivor
Price: $4.99 USD. 58770 words. Published by Darling Newspaper Press  on November 15, 2009. Fiction.
A child sentenced to hang, Maggie flees 1830s Scotland and endures a violent odyssey to womanhood. An original heroine of flawed psyche, her self-taught book wisdom frequently fuels catastrophe. She joins gentryfolk sailing to create an Eden in the wilderness, promoted as a Second America. Deceit and murder predominate instead.
Eden's Deadly Shore    by John Ivor
Price: $2.99 USD. 27550 words. Published by Darling Newspaper Press  on November 15, 2009. Fiction.
At seventeen, shopgirl Maggie meets the man of her dreams, but her dye-stained cheeks turn the dream to nightmare. This thrilling sequel to Run Maggie Run is set in a class conscious 1830s colony, where Maggie opposes its corrupt British rulers.
Java's Dream    by John Ivor
Price: $0.99 USD. 11260 words. Published by Darling Newspaper Press  on October 31, 2009. Fiction.
Before history, humanity begins when a strange fork-legged creature challenges bestial tradition. In making this moral stand, Java and his mate risk all.
The Prize Bride    by John Ivor
Price: Free! 2490 words. Published by Darling Newspaper Press  on May 17, 2009. Fiction.
Marrying for money would save the career of a penurious young captain. But winning the daughter of The Wangler, an English tycoon, was a prospect to fear. Author John Ivor delights with this humorous account of bride-seeking in the early 1800s. The characters interact in an unusual, yet richly endowed, county mansion.
Captain Striver    by John Ivor
Price: $2.99 USD. 49260 words. Published by Darling Newspaper Press  on August 12, 2008. Fiction.
Family in disgrace, a penurious young sea captain dreams of creating a British colony to replace lost America. Against him stand Admiralty, Government and the influential British East India Trading Company. Nevertheless, if only he can marry into wealth . . . Based on true events, this fictional autobiography is Book Two of ‘Strive’, dreamers of The Great Southland, published hardback in 2000
Amateur Rebel    by John Ivor
Price: $2.99 USD. 56340 words. Published by Darling Newspaper Press  on June 28, 2008. Fiction.
Maggie, an interpreter, believes justice can’t be achieved without just rulers, so she fights corrupt despots of an 1830s British Colony. And tries not to fall in love with Jeremy, her hot-headed foolish ally. Magistrates commit murder, the natives mistake a missionary as an incarnation of the Rainbow Serpent come to evict white settlers, and Maggie could lose her head - literally!
No Kiss For A Killer    by John Ivor
Price: $2.99 USD. 43030 words. Published by Darling Newspaper Press  on June 27, 2008. Fiction.
Skilled swordsman Jeremy Hanwell vows to avenge his father’s murder. Then he falls in love – with a woman who’ll reject him if he performs this sacred duty. Romance rides a thorny trail in an 1830s British Colony.

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